Cassius Apronianus

{{short description|2nd century Roman senator and provincial governor}}

Cassius Apronianus was a Roman senator who lived in the 2nd century. It has been conjectured that he supposedly married the daughter of the Greek historian, orator, and philosopher Dio Chrysostom.{{Cite journal |last=Gowing |first=Alain M. |date=1990 |title=Dio's Name |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/269480?seq=1&cid=pdf-reference#references_tab_contents |journal=Classical Philology |volume=85 |issue=1 |pages=49–54 }} Their son was the historian, consul and senator Cassius Dio.

Apronianus was originally from Bithynia (modern northwestern Turkey). He was governor of Lycia et Pamphylia around 179/180,Géza Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand unter der Antoninen (Bonn: Rudolf Habelt Verlag, 1977), p. 265 then of Cilicia (modern southeastern Turkey) c. 180 – c. 183,Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand, p. 254 where he was joined by his son Dio.Dio, 44.36; 49.1; 72.7 Apronianus became suffect consul most likely around 185, after which he served as governor of Dalmatia (modern Dalmatia, Croatia).{{cite book|editor1-last=Smith|editor1-first=William|editor1-link=William Smith (lexicographer)|title=A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, Volume 1|publisher=J. Murray|year=1880|page=[https://archive.org/details/dictionarygreek02smitgoog/page/n266 251]|url=https://archive.org/details/dictionarygreek02smitgoog|accessdate=28 November 2016}}